The Upgrade of the ATLAS Inner Detector

With the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully collecting data at 7 TeV and even at 8 TeV since April 2012, plans are actively advancing for a series of upgrades in phase with the three long shutdown periods leading to detector improvement. The ATLAS collaboration will upgrade at the next shutdown in 2013-2014 its semiconductor pixel tracking detector with a new Insertable BLayer (IBL) between the existing innermost pixel layer and the vacuum pipe of the LHC. The extreme operating conditions at this location led considering the development of new radiation hard pixel sensor technologies and a new front-end readout chip. The IBL community is currently working for producing modules with silicon planar and 3D technology towards the loading on 14 local stave structures as well as the integration around the beam pipe and in the ATLAS detector. The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will eventually increase to about five times the LHC design-luminosity some 10-years from now requiring a complete Inner Detector replacements. With the increase luminosity, the cumulated radiation damages and the significant increase of the occupancy the current inner detector detector will not provide the required performances to fully exploit the discovery potential. An overview of the IBL features and construction will be described as well as some R&Ds investigations towards phase-2 HL-LHC inner tracker upgrade.